Today’s #tbtRPG post is a reminder to never forget your friends are there for you. In our ongoing Edge of the Apocalypse game, Keenan’s character Gjerik is a Goliath hell-bent on avenging his parents, murdered at the hands of rather powerful vampires. Their dread lieutenant, CuSith, has stalked our group since the inception of our…
I want to discuss teamwork on today’s #newbieTuesday post. As with any profession or activity, teamwork is an essential building block of the process in a role playing game. That said though, at times, the greatest drama in a story can come from two characters where you’d expect to work well together, do the opposite…
Today’s #worldbuildingMonday post centers on the differences in genres when translating them to a role playing game. We all know that Mystery stories differ from Sci Fi which are different than Action Adventure, Spy, Drama, Comedy etc. Of course, they all share some common elements as well but, from a worldbuilding POV, having a strong…
It’s release day at StoryTogether and we’re all honored to present episode 4 of The Couriers! The Couriers team has blossomed throughout this process and really come into their own. The story they’re all telling is honest, fresh, and frankly, absolutely wild. Episode 4 is the culmination of several different arcs thus far in their…
This week’s #tbtRPG comes from a pivotal moment in our group’s understanding of our impact on the planet Oro in @Glukeose’s ongoing Edge of the Apocalypse game we’ve been playing for the past year and a half. The early sessions of our story were marked by half-assery and selfish plodding, albeit absolutely hilarious, fun, and…
Today’s #newbieTueday post surrounds the connection parents have with their children as they grow older in this ever-escalating digital age. Whether it’s at your dinner table or in the myriad TV shows, movies, and social media out there but the way we connect and interact with our kids is changing as the rate of our…
Today’s #GMAdvice stems from a fear we hear from even super experienced GMs/DMs and that’s the pressure to “do voices.” In just about any story that will be told during a role playing game, characters will come across NPCs – non-player characters – of all shapes and sizes. And the unfair burden that some GMs…
Today’s #tbtRPG story comes from a (somewhat) Pirate-themed story. During a frantic escape from an under-siege San Juan at the height of the Golden Age of Piracy, our group came face-to-face with a legendary weaponsmith’s shop and decided that, despite the fact shells were hitting the city all around in the middle of the night,…
In light of yesterday’s post about theater of the mind, today’s #wildcardWednesday post centers on a little-known condition called Aphantasia. Simply put, Aphantasia is the inability to produce images in your mind’s eye. Some calling it “imagination blindness,” Aphantasia prevents people from conjuring images of any type inside their mind. If I were to say,…
Today’s #newbieTueday post centers on a core concept of role playing games: theater of the mind (TOTM). TOTM is the ability to, with your mind’s eye, progressively envision the happenings of a story as they unfold. Now, most folks are familiar with this process from reading books. As an example, during the battle of Hogwarts…
